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So how much actual content with plotty-happening-stuff does one actually need per, oh, 40,000 words or so? I mean, happening-stuff other than "here are all the ways in which they are slowly and obviously falling in love/meant for each other/oblivious/in denial/revealing backstory/eating pie/riding dinosaurs/accidentally cuddling." Before you just give up reading and/or skip to the sexy stuff near the end. Like, is "none" okay? 'Cause, um.
I mean, I guess most of the stuff I write is like that. My so-called plots are mostly people and not so much with the events. They just kind of wander through whatever world I'm playing self-indulgently in and talk to each other and have thoughts. And maybe sometimes I get a cool turn of phrase or two in there or throw in a competing love-interest, but it's not like big drama-filled edge-of-your-seat Happenings. You pretty much know, because it's me writing, that I'm not going to kill them or have them go blind or really even have a bigger obstacle than "guys, get your heads out of your asses and your dicks into each other's."
And I guess maybe I wonder if that isn't all that fun, or I'm not challenging myself, or even who the hell's going to read it because this has been done 2304983 times with minor differences in details. And I guess I feel lame next to all the people who can rock the plotty happenings, like they're JK Rowling and I'm the grocery store romance novelist. But I guess people still buy those.
/end navel-gazing
I mean, I guess most of the stuff I write is like that. My so-called plots are mostly people and not so much with the events. They just kind of wander through whatever world I'm playing self-indulgently in and talk to each other and have thoughts. And maybe sometimes I get a cool turn of phrase or two in there or throw in a competing love-interest, but it's not like big drama-filled edge-of-your-seat Happenings. You pretty much know, because it's me writing, that I'm not going to kill them or have them go blind or really even have a bigger obstacle than "guys, get your heads out of your asses and your dicks into each other's."
And I guess maybe I wonder if that isn't all that fun, or I'm not challenging myself, or even who the hell's going to read it because this has been done 2304983 times with minor differences in details. And I guess I feel lame next to all the people who can rock the plotty happenings, like they're JK Rowling and I'm the grocery store romance novelist. But I guess people still buy those.
/end navel-gazing
